US Green Building Council

I had an interesting call the other day from one of my customers asking if our vacuums were LEED Certified.

Since I had never heard of "LEED" Certification I did a little investigative work (aka google LEED Certification) to find out what my customer was refering to. It turns out that the U.S. Green Building Council has developed a rating system , "The Leadership In Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System". The LEED System is a third-party certification program and self professed nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction, and operation of high performance green buildings. LEED provides building owners and operators the tools they need to have an immediate and measurable impact on their building performance.

As it turns out, USGBC does not evaluate, approve or disapprove, or recommend any cleaning tools. The only information about LEED approved products has to do with cleaning chemicals. You can go to USGBC's web site http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CategoryID=19 then click on LEED Resources to see what Chemical Manufacturers and which of their chemicals are approved.

There is no doubt that standards need to be set to improve the quality and integrity of cleaning professionals. Again, there is no doubt that some national standard should be in place for all of us to use a the litmus test by which we clean. What is so darn frustrating to me and my contemporaries in the cleaning equipment business is the misconceptions and misinformation that our customers and potential customers need to wade through to find out the truth.

So, just to be certain that all of you understand, the Perfect P103 & P104 HEPA Upright Vacuum Cleaners and the Perfect PB1001 and PB1006 are all Carpet & Rug Institute Green Seal Certified for use in Green Cleaning designated building including federal and government buildings.

Hope this clears the air some.